Posted on 09/09/2011 5:18:16 PM PDT by usconservative
I was home from work that day to take my then 5 year old son to the Eye Doctor to have his eyes checked out.
We left the house about an hour after the towers fell to drive to the doctors office, purely out of just not knowing what else to do that day.
As we drove to the doctors office, we saw many people pulled off to the side of the road, out of their cars. Some were walking around near their cars, others were looking up in the sky. Others were obviously and noticeably distraught.
The whole visit to the eye doctor seemed surreal. Everyone seemed to be going through the motions of what they were supposed to be doing in the course of a normal day, which it clearly was not.
My oldest son was diagnosed with an inner ocular eye muscle palsy (same condition as I have) and thankfully it was caught early so it was treated successfully without surgery and he no longer requires glasses for correction.
The only other thing I remember about that day was there were no planes in the sky. At one point in the late afternoon I looked up and saw four streaks in the sky going from North to South, faster and higher than anything I'd ever seen.
As God is my witness, I thought we launched on someone.
A minute later, four new streaks appeared across the sky going from West to East, as high and fast as the previous streaks I saw. I can only speculate on this based on news reports and accounts published after that day, but I believe that was President Bush heading back to the White House from NORAD out west.
I'm in Illinois, so it makes some sense that we'd be in the flight path back to DC, but who knows if that was really President Bush or not...
I’m in Wisconsin, a few miles from Truax Air Force Base where my husband served.
I remember too, the sky void of planes, except for F-16s if they were scrambled or patrolling.
There is regional airport there too, and we normally see quite a few airplanes, but of course not on that horrible day.
I still get as angry about it as I did the morning I saw it all unfold on television.
And I still to this day, frown uncontrollably when I see someone in the islamic garb here in my country, enjoying our freedom, possibly planning our deaths while they infest our country, as they are doing in other countries.
The Usurper’s love for islam is abhorrent. I think he is one of them. After all he said the sound of the “call to prayer” is the most beautiful sound he ever heard.
And the bowing to islamics, it’s too much to take...
God Bless America and deliver us out of this hell of this anti-American fake president.
Yes. This year moreso.
I live in the South. I don’t know anyone personally affected by this crime, and ten years later, I still can’t find words to adequately express the emotions that rush through me each 9/11. My heart breaks for the loved ones of those who were lost. I feel rage toward those who committed this act of evil. Very tearful weekend.
I didnt think I would get emotional at all. I am rather upset about what the left has done since 9/11 and I am really can not stand Mayor Bloomberg. The Islamic symbolism I keep seeing surrounding this brought about by the left-wing really angers me as well.
But... today I was in my car when Hanniity came on and he started a montage at the beginning of the show and I instantly started to feel like crying. A lot of the pain of that day came back.
I do not watch television though today so I will probably miss many things that would possibly get to me. I do plan on saying prayers and holding some kind of personal way of remembering this Sunday. There is also an event near me that I will try to go to Sunday that gives support to homeless veterans. I have to still make arrangements though.
Yes. Very. Often to tears.
We did lose colleagues. But it’s even more than that. I’ll never forget or get over that day or the day after.
I joined FR a few months prior to 9 11. I remember your post when you finally were able to. I posted on FR twice that morning (basically thoughts and prayers for America) and it might be when all is said and done here on FR the most significant thing I ever posted. You were there that day and gave us a first hand account. Glad you survived and are still with us today.
Yes, listened to Glenn Beck this AM and now watching the Dateline. Difficult to hear and watch. Wanted to cry, but couldn’t. Had to turn Dateline off...very good show, just still tough. Also, the wars we fought because of 9/11...there were way more than 3000 victims of that attack on American soil.
Another classmate just sent me this:
http://longisland.newsday.com/911-anniversary/victims/Kathy-MazzaDelosh
Yes. I still cry when I think of it. And no Bloomberg, Bush or political flunky will change that. God bless America.
Yes. Still so much anger, still so much sorrow.
My little boys (4 1/2 y.o.) are just old enough to wonder what all the hoorah about 9/11 is. When they asked, I gave them a very simple version — that some very evil men managed to destroy two large skyscrapers in New York City, because they did not like our country. I got so choked up I could hardly continue.
Never forgive. Never forget.
I still cry every time I see photos of that day.
Me Too...
Interesting question, but yes.
Hannity ran a 9/11 tribute of sorts at the top of his show today, and I listened to it while on the road. I don’t think I heard a single word that anyone said, but the whole time that tribute was playing, I was re-playing my own memories of that day in my head.
Gotta admit that I got very misty and choked up thinking of that brutal attack on my country.
I also remember the stench eminating from the site for monthss after. I remember being mad as hell. I rememeber troops on the sidewalks. I remember wearing a breathing mask to work. I remember my first ferry ride back to the city, the following monday, all of us riding past the smoldering ruins in dead silence.
I don't know how you did it. I don't think I could ....
Absolutely. I was in the city that morning and I will never forget the attack on America.
Back then, everyone feared more attacks. The anthrax scare hit and there was a bull market for Israeli gas masks. Working in the financial district after 9-11 felt like being at the front. I was glad to have the opportunity to go back, and was proud of all the rest of us who got back to work and got on with the business of life.
I can understand that. If I ever meet you, bar tab's on me. It would be my priviledge to buy a few rounds.
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